We were smoke (1992)

Rural landscape.

Panorama of a rural house: photos on the wall.

Sheep run out of the barn.

A man drives cows out of a neighboring house.

A street in the village of Kochevo.

Villagers on the street.

A woman in the house rolls out the dough.

Fire in the oven.

Food is being prepared in the oven.

A woman takes cakes out of the oven.

A cat is lying on the windowsill, a teenage girl is eating a flatbread.

Workshops, a woman typing, a seamstress.

Agricultural machinery in the yard.

Rural bakery: tests in a huge vat, a woman takes out ready-made bread from the oven.

Sale of bread by lists.

The queue for bread on the street.

A woman from the queue (synchronously).

Bricks of bread.

A woman reads out rural news in a local radio station (synchronously).

A newborn baby.

Young father I.Utrobin meets his wife with a newborn son.

I. Utrobin (synchronously).

A woman carries buckets of water on a yoke.

Photo of a young man (the author's father).

An old man is sitting on a bench near the house.

Photos of the author of the film with his brothers.

The Baluyev brothers are sitting on a bench near the house.

The Baluyev family is in front of the house.

A married couple came to the village council to draw up a pension (synchronously).

Head of the district archive (synchronously).

Rural registry office.

The woman came to register the child.

Children in kindergarten.

A man is whittling boards and pronouncing fairy tales in Komi-Permian (synchronously).

Carpenter V. Chedov.

Grazing horses.

The forge.

A blacksmith forges horseshoes.

Hard workers smoke a cigarette.

The street of the district center at lunchtime.

Pond.

An abandoned house.

Two women enter an abandoned house.

Women are sitting in an empty, abandoned house.

Old family photos.

An old woman is dusting off things left in the house.

An old woman stands on the threshold of the house where she was born and sings in Komi-Permian (synchronously).

A woman gathers berries in the forest.

A woman breaks birch branches.

A woman collects brooms from branches.

Birch brooms are dried in the sun.

A rally on June 22 at the memorial to fallen soldiers.

Veterans with awards.

Veterans lay flowers at the monument.

One of the veterans (synchronously).

Veterans are arguing about today's life (synchronously).

A resident of the village of Kochevo (synchronously).

Tustugov Ya.P. is the oldest resident of the village, the first chairman of the collective farm.(synchronously) about his life.

Ya.

Tustugov takes out of the chest of drawers his photo, which he prepared for the monument.

Stoker A.Tustugov (synchronously).

A man is sitting on the balcony of a two-story house, playing the accordion and singing (synchronously).

Carpenter V. Chedov plays the accordion and sings (synchronously).

A mailbox with a portrait of Pushkin on the gate of one of the houses.

Regional film library.

Director of the film library (synchronously).

Goats on the threshold of a closed store.

The master of weaving bast shoes (synchronously).

Woven bags, tues, bast shoes on the door of the shed.

Bronze figurines of pagan idols.

A wooden figure of Christ found in the Kochevsky district.

Exhibition of applied art of local grandmothers.

Local women sing a folk song (synchronously).

Perm art critics record songs of the local folklore ensemble.

Art historians learn to dance from grandmothers.

The faces of the inhabitants of the village of Kochevo.

The village of Kochnevo.

A man harnesses a horse to a cart.

An old woman is sharpening her scythe.

A woman mows the grass.

A man carries cans of water on a cart.

Panorama of the village.

Cows graze on the shore of the pond.

Neptune's holiday at the pioneer camp.

Children splash in the river.

REGISTRY OFFICE. The young exchange rings.

Another couple of newlyweds in the registry office.

The young husband takes his wife out of the registry office in his arms.

Photo of young people with guests.

A man is sitting on the steps of a house with a shark skull, showing it to his little son.

A Nomadic policeman lifts a two-pound kettlebell with one little finger.

Police captain (synchronously).

Wooden bridge across the river.

Landscape.

An abandoned house.

Wooden church.

A house in one of the villages of the district with wooden sculptures.

E. Utrobin is the owner of the house and the master.

The village of Kochevo.

A road washed away by the rains.

Central paved street.

Signs of various organizations located in the village.

Local creamery.

A woman washes the corridor in the hospital.

The doctor massages the baby.

Photos of various local feasts with booze.

A broken bookstore window.

A policewoman (synchronously).

-

Old photos of residents of the village of Kochnevo.

A woman rakes mown grass.

A man puts hay in a stack.

Short life plans of the village: a guy is picking cherries from a tree, two men are talking about something.

Photo studio: a female photographer combs a man's hair before shooting.

Barbershop.

Watchmaker.

Funeral in the village.

Old graves in the cemetery.

Men dig a grave.

A fresh grave.

The building of the Nomadic Executive Committee.

Moving the Executive Committee to a brick building.

Furniture is unloaded from the car.

The central square, where the new building is located, is washed away by rains with potholes and pits.

A small queue at the car counter.

People at the mall.

Soyuzpechat kiosk.

An old man digs potatoes.

Seeing off the accordion player for a well-deserved rest.

Seeing off the accordion player on retirement.

Women sing ditties.

Demolition of an old, abandoned house.

Local composer Andrey Anisimov sings a song of his own composition.

Views of the village.

Dancing on the dance floor.

General view of the village.

Bus stop.

Folklore festival in Kochnevo.

Performance of a folklore group.

A little girl sings and dances.

Performance of a children's folklore ensemble.

Performance of an adult folklore group.

People get on the bus.

A woman on the catwalk rinses her underwear.

The Executive Committee holds a gathering of citizens with a report on their work.

People ask uncomfortable questions (synchronously).

Panorama of the village.

Panorama of cots with newborns in the maternity hospital.

Panorama of the faces of preschool children.

Panorama of the faces of younger schoolchildren and villagers.

Panorama of the faces of the inhabitants of the village of Kochevo.

Goats graze the grass at the house.

Two old ladies are sitting on a bench near the house.

An old woman is sitting in a room.

Photos of a woman in her youth.

Close-up: the hands of a woman.

An old woman is trying to thread a needle.

Close-up: the overworked hands of an old woman.

An old woman is lying in bed and reading a newspaper.

Icons in the corner of the hut.

The girl is sitting on the bed knitting, the other is watching TV.

A sleeping woman with a newspaper in her hands.

Moonlit night.

The spring.

Rural landscape.

A small dam on the river.

Panorama of the birch grove.

Landscapes.